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God spoke to the prophet Isaiah 13 years before the
Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom about a future gathering.
Hearing God speak about bringing them back from different parts of
the world must have caused great confusion while they were still in
the Promised Land. Additionally, Isaiah foretold how the Messiah
would suffer and pay for the sins of mankind and rule the whole
world from the city of Jerusalem. He described a future paradise
when the scattered tribes of Israel would be brought back to rule,
strangers would be a slave labor force, the sun would no longer set
and the Lord would be an everlasting light. The Kabbalistic rabbis eventually developed this into
a teaching that the people of Israel were superior to everyone else
and Gentiles were created to be slaves to the Israelites. God also
warned the people about their rebellion and how they continually
provoked Him to anger. God stated that He would mark them for death
and only a remnant would be saved. It was confusing hearing God
speak about these stunning revelations in conjunction with the
Messiah and they struggled to understand the unknown timeline when
these things would take place. |
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